Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
The PL-600 exam is designed for professionals who implement and configure Power Platform. It validates your ability to perform solution envisioning and requirement analysis, architect a solution, and implement the solution.
Exam details
- Certification
- Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
- Exam code
- PL-600
- Level
- Expert
- Duration
- Approximately 100 minutes
- Questions
- Typically 40–60 questions
- Passing score
- 700 out of 1000
- Cost
- USD $165 — typical price; the exact fee varies by country/region and currency, and local taxes may apply.
- Prerequisites
- None required
- Languages
- English (also available in French, German, Japanese and Spanish, and several other languages)
- Delivered by
- Pearson VUE
- Renewal
- Free online assessment, every 12 months
Skills measured
Perform solution envisioning and requirement analysis (45–50%)
- Evaluate requirements and select Power Platform, Dynamics 365, AppSource, Azure, and ISV components.
- Capture current-state processes, risks, success criteria, data sources, and quality standards.
- Refine functional and non-functional requirements and perform fit/gap analysis.
Architect a solution (35–40%)
- Lead topology, UX, reuse, data migration, visualisation, automation, and environment design.
- Design the data model, integrations, authentication, continuity, and RPA.
- Design business units, security roles, row and column security, Entra ID, and DLP.
Implement the solution (15–20%)
- Validate detailed designs, security, API limits, performance, and integration conflicts.
- Support go-live, including performance, data migration, deployment, and readiness issues.
Study resources & practice tests
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Frequently asked questions
Who should take PL-600?
PL-600 is for Power Platform solution architects, business-applications architects, and senior technical or functional leads. Most work at Microsoft partners, or in enterprise low-code centres of excellence in finance, government, and professional services. This exam has retired.
What is the average salary for a Power Platform Solution Architect?
As of 2026, US Power Platform solution architect pay is commonly about $150,000 to $175,000 in published averages. In the United Kingdom, Power Platform solution architects are typically £70,000 to £95,000. In Germany, Power Platform leads are about €85,000 to €105,000. There is no single published EMEA average.
Where do I find exam questions to practice?
You will find websites selling exam dumps or brain dumps that claim to be real PL-600 questions. Those materials are not official. Microsoft treats using brain dumps as cheating. It can invalidate your score, revoke certifications you already hold, and ban you from future exams. MeasureUp also sells the official practice test linked in the study resources on this page. You can try the Microsoft exam sandbox to see the question types and timer, but it does not use real exam questions. Practise the skills measured in a real product environment rather than memorising leaked items.
Does the exam include official labs I can use to practice?
PL-600 is a design and architecture exam. It is typically assessed with case studies and traditional questions rather than a hands-on lab you can reuse afterwards. Microsoft still expects job-role experience. Practise in a subscription or trial, and official instructor-led PL-600T00 training delivered by a Microsoft Learning Partner includes labs. Those labs are for the course, not a copy of the exam. The Microsoft exam sandbox shows traditional question types only. It does not give you the lab virtual machine.